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I thought it was interesting that they specify the Desktop Wallpaper is free.

I wondered if anyone had ever paid for desktop wallpaper: apparently people do http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=desktop+wallpaper&LH_Com...

I wonder if I could write a script to sell royalty free wallpaper on ebay, if all the sellers have the rights to the images they are selling, and what kind of person pays for wallpaper.



> what kind of person pays for wallpaper.

Non-technical users. I think that technical users often forget how lucky we are that we can make the assumption that often good, and sometimes even the best, tools are free.


A user once asked me if subscribing to our newsletter — with announcements about our software releases — was free. Since then I added "free" ("Subscribe to our free newsletter") to every subscribe form I designed.


> I wondered if anyone had ever paid for desktop wallpaper

For a while Windows 10 was basically a free OS supported by wallpaper micro transactions.




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